From the moment the gay, handsome Father Campion stepped jauntily off the boat at London that day in 1579, he knew that danger was everywhere around him. Queen Elizabeth had made herself the head of the Church, those who defied her were executed, and priests traveled secretly from one Catholic family to another, knowing that each hour might be the last. This is the story of Edmund Campion's dangerous work among the Catholics of his beloved England, of the loyal young men the members of the Catholic Club who guided the fugitive priests through the countryside, of young William Harrington who followed his hero even to death on the scaffold. Now he is called Blessed Edmund Campion and so the glory of God shines around one who died the death of a criminal but reaped the reward of a saint.